A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, minerals to power electric-vehicle batteries. America has no immediate plans ...

World War II would see the empire collude with Nazi Germany ... conquering new lands in Siberia and crossing the Bering Strait into North America (as shown in this 1775 map). At its height at the end ...

And while one of Trump’s recent explanations for his Arctic ambitions — that Greenland is being surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships — is mostly groundless, recent encounters with Russian and ...

It was the 20th century’s most voluminous eruption and it put the Katmai region on the world map. Novarupta is part of the Aleutian ... Historic Landmark significant for its remnants of World War II ...

Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100. Stewart was one of the last ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Barge’s career spanned much of the post-World War II era. He was in college jazz combos in the 1940s, backed Little Richard and James Brown when they were starting out, played a long ...

Ice is visible in the Bering Sea on January 22, 2020, from a small plane airplane near the western Alaska coast. Ice is visible in the Bering Sea on January 22, 2020, from a small plane airplane ...

You can reach the newsroom at [email protected] The moment a Bering Air Cessna Caravan plane disappeared over Alaska has been captured by a flight tracker. Authorities in Alaska are continuing ...